Although I’m still a long way from being able to create my Void Elf Mage — I haven’t even gotten my Demon Hunter to Argus yet (though she’s already reached Honored with Argussian Reach from Kirin Tor Emissary tokens) — I can experiment with what I might want her to look like using the “Preview” option that the devs so considerately included on the character creation screen.

I was initially rather excited that the Void Elf female hairstyles include some options that, while more wavy than true ringlets, have a similar aesthetic to the Draenei style. Alas, most of the ringlets-like hairstyles also feature the animated, glowing void tendrils — which are too creepy for me.

This one is my favorite from the back, but in the front, it has those void tendrils instead of proper ringlets.

This one is my favorite from the front, but in the back, what would otherwise be very nice ringlets turn into void tendrils.

If I could have the back view of the first one with the front view of the second one, that would be perfect!

This wavy hairstyle is quite pretty from the back, and it doesn’t have void tendrils in either front or back — which might be why I see it on so many Void Elves — but I’m not much of a fan of the hair-over-one-eye look, either.

I think this hairstyle is rather romantic… except for those void tendrils in the front again…

I’m fond of the long braid pulled over the shoulder hairstyle — originally a Night Elf hairstyle, added to Dwarves and Blood Elves when the Barbershop was introduced — because Jaina will be wearing her hair like that in Battle for Azeroth, I think Humans should get it now, too — so perhaps my Void Elf will choose this long ponytail pulled over the shoulder hairstyle.

And is it just me, or does the animation of those tendrils not look suspiciously similar to the animated, glowing, sinuously-shaped pillars on the statue of Rhonin…?

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I think the Allied Races will have more customisation options down the line, it feels a bit like there was a deadline to release them on 7.3.5.

One thing I would like Blizzard to implement was this: when making a mew character, we should have access to all the options, including the ones on the barbershop. I always thought it was a bit weird that when making a new character we had to also see the barber options online or on the shop itself because the character creation interface withholds those options from us.

The Allied Races *do* have all of their options available on the character creation screen — they don’t have any additional options at the barbershop.

It would be nice to have all of the options that are unique to each race available on the character creation screen — but I’m okay with having options that originally belonged to one race, then were shared with others via the barbershop (such as the long braid over the shoulder example) only be available to the original race on the character creation screen and other races have to go get it at the barbershop. Then they could expand stuff like hairstyles to other races than the ones those styles were originally created for without having to re-code the character creation screen quite so often… or something 😛

About the Allied races I was aware of that (especially since a few only have three or four options on skin colour for example xD)

I guess you are right, I’m okay with it too. Some races could use a little nip and tuck (ahem…male gnomes hairstyles), I hope Blizzard is doing it on it’s own pace.
When the casters’ animations were updated I was a bit sad when I saw that holy paladins and warlocks didnt get anything, but when I read aBlizzard post saying essentially “we want to do it RIGHT. We didn’t want to rush it and have a poorer result” I cheered up. And when I saw the previews of their new animations I was in awe 😀

Getting back to the subject of hairstyles and custom options, I would really really really love if the Worgen could have changes in their customisation. I’m all for the “black fur = black hair in human form”, but forcing us to have other equivalents like “this beard on worgen form = this beard in human form” is not something I really enjoy. What I would like was having this same system but with a few more options (this beard = one of these 3 beards in human form).
Not that it’s important to me, as my Worgen stay in their true form all the time 😀

I was a bit disappointed, actually, that there weren’t any other options for the Allied Races at the barbershop — because there are some current race hairstyles that I might like to use on an Allied Race character, as well as the other way ’round!

Heheh, male Gnome hair is pretty wild. Speaking of wild hair, Trolls have all these wonderful and unique styles, and it would be great to be able to see ALL of them on the character creation screen 🙂

I know what you mean about the Worgen! The worgen hairstyle I’ve chosen for my Worgen corresponds to a human style that, while I don’t hate it, isn’t the style I’d prefer her human form to have. My Worgen has had to get used to her worgen form. At first, she stayed in human form whenever she was in the city, but now she spends most of her time in worgen form, unless I specifically want her human form as the model for an outfit (ie the wedding outfit I did for WM3, because she wasn’t a worgen yet when that happened).

We’re are very much on the same page of the Worgen problem 🙂
How fun, I also like to use human form on some cities, to be less conspicuous. (I keep a “hidden helm” on my head, and on the rare occasions I use human form I use an “unhidden helm” on my bags ^^)

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Perhaps this will be a character who spends a lot of money at the barbershop… use the first hairstyle for running around most of the time, when I’ll be looking at her from the back; switch to the second hairstyle when I’m taking Mog photos and need to look at her from the front; then switch back… WTB a version of the Mog Yak that has a travelling barber on it, please 😛

But will the devs think of that (giving Humans the long braid over the shoulder)? At least the latest info from the PTR is that skin color can now be changed at the barbershop, so the only character identity changes that will need real money anymore are name and gender — and the latter makes sense to be something that can’t be done at the barbershop because it’s a total change of model.